Cartage vs Transportation - What's the difference?
cartage | transportation |
The transport of goods by cart; carting
A charge made for such transport
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
(US) A means of conveyance.
(US) A ticket or fare.
* 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
As nouns the difference between cartage and transportation
is that cartage is the transport of goods by cart; carting while transportation is the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.cartage
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Quotations
* 1848 Thomas Carlyle - Thomas Carlyle *: Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted * 1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law *: Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage , which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.transportation
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(-)- We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
- Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
- (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
- Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."